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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational ventures. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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