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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in online learning technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? 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 optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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