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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education enable students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Italy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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