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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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