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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations must deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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