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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in online education have empowered students in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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