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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in online learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Korea, South to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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