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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Aland to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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