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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in elearning make it possible for people all around the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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