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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning have empowered students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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