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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education have empowered people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a growing need to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better understand these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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