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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in digital education technology are empowering learners all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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