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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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