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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered humans all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to understand these promising new open education undertakings. Universities want to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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