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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in elearning technology make it possible for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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