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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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