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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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