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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response 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 inspiring new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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