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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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