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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are considering now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this expanding need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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