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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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