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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education undertakings. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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