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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in online learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also investigates the 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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