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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning have empowered students in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Virginia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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