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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the 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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