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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in digital education technology are empowering humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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