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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in learning technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. People want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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