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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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