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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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