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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Burundi to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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