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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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