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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in e-learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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