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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Morocco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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