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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic educational technology make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cape Verde to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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