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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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