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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are considering today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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