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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in learning technology have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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