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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Lithuania to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOCs can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this crescive demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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