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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online learning enable learners all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this developing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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