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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Columbia University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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