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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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