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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Lesotho to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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