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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online education technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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