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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning are empowering people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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