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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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