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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in digital education technology have made it possible for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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