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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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