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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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