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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in e-learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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