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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bulgaria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education endeavours. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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