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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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