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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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