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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Central Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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