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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to take 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. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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