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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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