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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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