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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Lucia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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