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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in elearning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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