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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are empowering students in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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