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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online learning are empowering learners all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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