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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for details 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 reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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