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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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