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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in elearning are empowering students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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