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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Vietnam to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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