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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Cyprus to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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