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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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