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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Venezuela to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also reviews the most important 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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