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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kirkwood Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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