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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Iran to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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