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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to be more aware of these new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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