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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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