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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in elearning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. 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. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also reviews the key 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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