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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these new open education initiatives. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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