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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in digital education technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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