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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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