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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also explores the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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