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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all over the world to take online classes. 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. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open education initiatives. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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