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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in online learning have enabled people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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