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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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