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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in learning technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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