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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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