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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are making it possible for students all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Cape Verde to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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