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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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