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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in elearning have empowered humans all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies 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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