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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Belarus to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Educators want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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