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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in e-learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. 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. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kirkwood Community College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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