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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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