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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions must deal with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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