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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions have to deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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