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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Navassa Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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