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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like French Polynesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources