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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in digital education technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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