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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in e-learning technology have enabled students all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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