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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Uruguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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