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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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