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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in e-learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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