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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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