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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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