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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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