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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in technology-enhanced learning are empowering learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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