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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in technology-enhanced learning are enabling learners all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Belarus to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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