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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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