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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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