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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in elearning technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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