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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Brunei to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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