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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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