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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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