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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online education have enabled people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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