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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Puerto Rico to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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