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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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