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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Singapore to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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