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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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