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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in elearning enable students in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also articulates the 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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