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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in e-learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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