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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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