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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education have enabled students in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the authoritative 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 exciting new book also investigates the key 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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