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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Baker Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education undertakings. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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