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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Liberia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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