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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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