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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in elearning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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