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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education technology have made it possible for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Lucia to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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