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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs? How can we manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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