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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in digital education technology enable humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Martinique to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational ventures. Trainers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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