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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in distance learning have enabled students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of North Carolina to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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