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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in electronic educational technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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