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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Costa Rica to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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