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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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