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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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