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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Slovenia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education initiatives. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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