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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in elearning enable students in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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