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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning technology are making it possible for students all over the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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