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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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