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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning have provided the means for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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