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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education have enabled people all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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