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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered humans all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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