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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online learning technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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