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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in online education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Spain to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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