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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology are enabling humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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