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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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