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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning enable people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Nicaragua to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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