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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Montserrat to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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