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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in distance learning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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