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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for learners all over the world to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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