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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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