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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in digital education technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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