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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open education endeavours. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also analyzes 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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