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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brazil to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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