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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in digital education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Algeria to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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