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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in learning technology are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Haiti to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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