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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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