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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology have empowered students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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