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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in digital education technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Academics want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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