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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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