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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in digital education technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations must deal with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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