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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning are enabling students all around the world to participate in classes 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. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Tokelau to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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