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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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