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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 (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Poland to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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