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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in online education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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