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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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