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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning are making it possible for learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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