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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are considering now that online education technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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