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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that online education institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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