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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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