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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Laos to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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