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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning enable people in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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