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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology enable students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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