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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in digital education technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are considering now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Sri Lanka to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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