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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in e-learning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like American Samoa to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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