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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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