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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online learning technology enable students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education ventures. Trainers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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