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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are empowering students in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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