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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these important new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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