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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in online education have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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