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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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