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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. People want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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