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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. 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. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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