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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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