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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open educational initiatives. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also studies 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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