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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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