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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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