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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in online education technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Boston University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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