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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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