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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic education technology are empowering students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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