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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are considering more than ever because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cambodia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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