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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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