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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Luxembourg to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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