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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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