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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology have empowered students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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