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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations have to consider today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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