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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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