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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning have enabled humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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