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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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