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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Midway Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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