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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in electronic educational technology enable students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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