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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in elearning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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