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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. 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. MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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