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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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