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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in electronic education technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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