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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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