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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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