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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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