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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are considering now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Peter I Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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