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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also talks about the major 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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