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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in electronic education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations must deal with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tonga to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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