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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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