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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better understand these new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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