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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in e-learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like The New School to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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