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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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