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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the major 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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