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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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