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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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