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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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