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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to understand these open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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