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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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