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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education have enabled learners in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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