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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online learning technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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