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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education endeavours. People want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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