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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the 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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