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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology make it possible for learners in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with now that distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This book also describes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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