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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Ecuador to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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