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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in e-learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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