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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology have made it possible for students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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