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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massive open online courses? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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