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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the key 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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