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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning have enabled people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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