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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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