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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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