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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Scholars want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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