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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in digital education technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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