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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in e-learning have enabled humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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