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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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