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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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