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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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