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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online education enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education ventures. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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