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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to deal with now that distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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