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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning are enabling people all over the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Oman to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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