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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers 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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