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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education are enabling people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bermuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational ventures. Trainers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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