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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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