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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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