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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOCs are usually 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 online learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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