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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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