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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in elearning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Nicaragua to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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