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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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