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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in online education make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Ecuador to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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