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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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