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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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