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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in online learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like The University of Chicago to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these significant new open education undertakings. Scientists want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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