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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in digital education technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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