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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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