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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Grenada to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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