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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Lesotho to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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