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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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