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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these significant new open educational endeavours. Students want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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