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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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