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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning enable learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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