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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in e-learning have empowered students all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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