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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning have empowered learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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