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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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