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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. People want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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