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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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