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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also researches the major 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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