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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in learning technology enable humans all over the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other participants desire to understand these exciting new open education endeavours. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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