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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic education technology have empowered learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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