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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic educational technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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