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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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