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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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