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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology enable learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better understand these new open educational endeavours. People want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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