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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in online learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants need to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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