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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Jamaica to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also articulates 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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