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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of South Florida to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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