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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Columbia University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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