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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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