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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in elearning enable students all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. People want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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