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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in elearning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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