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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in electronic education technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. People want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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