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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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