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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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