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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online learning enable learners all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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