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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning enable humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Martinique to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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