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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning technology have empowered humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Iraq to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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