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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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