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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in electronic educational technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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