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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in elearning have enabled people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the 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 dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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