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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning technology enable people all over the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Seychelles to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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