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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations must deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the key 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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