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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic educational technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better perceive these interesting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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