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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in elearning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Liberia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Professors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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