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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in digital education technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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