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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in digital education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other participants need to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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