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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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