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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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