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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education enable people all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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