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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in e-learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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