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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education enable people all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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