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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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