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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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