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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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