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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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