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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in online education are enabling learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Ghana to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Professors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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