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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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