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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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