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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education initiatives. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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