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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ukraine to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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