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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning are making it possible for learners all around the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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