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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning have made it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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