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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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