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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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