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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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