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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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