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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning have provided the means for learners in all parts of 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 lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to understand these open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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