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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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