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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in digital education technology have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Chile to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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