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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are considering today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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