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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These massively open online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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