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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in technology-enhanced learning enable students in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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