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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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