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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in digital education technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like French Polynesia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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