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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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