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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in digital education technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Fiji to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)