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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online education are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider now that distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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