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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology make it possible for humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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