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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the 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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