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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in digital education technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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