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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? This open education book offers guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning experience. How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Liechtenstein to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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