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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in elearning technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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