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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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