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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in e-learning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Swaziland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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