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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning enable people all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the major 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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