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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Students want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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