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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning have enabled students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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