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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning enable learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mongolia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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