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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Trainers want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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