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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in e-learning enable humans all over the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Utah Valley University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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