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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in e-learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bolivia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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