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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Instructors want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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