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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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