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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students 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 subjects that e-learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Lesotho to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other participants desire to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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