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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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