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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Guam to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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