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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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