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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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