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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the most important 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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