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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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