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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Jordan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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