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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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