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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education are empowering students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these significant new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also deals with the 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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