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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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