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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology have empowered learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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