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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education are enabling students all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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