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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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