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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology have empowered students all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to consider today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also describes 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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