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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Saint Lucia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these promising new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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