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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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