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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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