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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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