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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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