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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a developing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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