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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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