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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many subjects that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Lebanon to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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