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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in digital education technology enable people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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