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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like State University of New York to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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