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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Abkhazia to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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