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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mali to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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