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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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