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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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