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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online learning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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