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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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