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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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