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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bolivia to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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