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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Uganda to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also articulates the key 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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