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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education undertakings. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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