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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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