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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. 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. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Faroe Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for information the stimulating 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 sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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