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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Iceland to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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