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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like El Salvador to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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