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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in electronic educational technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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