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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in elearning have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other participants would like to better comprehend these exciting new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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