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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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