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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in online courses. 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. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like El Salvador to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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