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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning enable students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like El Salvador to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these open educational initiatives. Universities want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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