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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in electronic education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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