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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online learning are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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