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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Sri Lanka to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these important new open education experiments. People want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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