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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in online education technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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