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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in electronic educational technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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