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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in elearning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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