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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in electronic education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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