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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Jordan to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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