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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Ecuador to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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