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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Panama to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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