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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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