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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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