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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online education have enabled people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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