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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education technology have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ukraine to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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