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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online learning have enabled learners in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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