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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in elearning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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