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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning are enabling students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. People want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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