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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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