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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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