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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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