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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology have enabled humans all around the world to take part in classes online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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