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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online education technology have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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