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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in online education technology have enabled learners all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to understand these promising new open education ventures. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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