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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in electronic education technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Mongolia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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