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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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