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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning enable people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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