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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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