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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in online education enable people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Switzerland to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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