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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take courses online. MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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