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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the key 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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