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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online education technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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