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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in elearning have enabled people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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