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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Ireland to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these compelling new open education ventures. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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