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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online education technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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