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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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