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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning enable students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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