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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Everyone wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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