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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning make it possible for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this growing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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