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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in distance learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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