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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online education technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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