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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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