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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in elearning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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