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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in electronic education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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