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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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