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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cape Verde to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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