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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online learning have empowered humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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