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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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