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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in electronic educational technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to consider today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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