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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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