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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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