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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in e-learning have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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