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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Guatemala to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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