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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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