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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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