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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in online learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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