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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major 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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