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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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