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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Nepal to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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