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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in e-learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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