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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education ventures. Students want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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