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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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