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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Marshall Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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