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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology are empowering learners in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better grasp these open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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