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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education are providing the means for learners all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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