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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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