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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning have enabled people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Oman to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these new open education ventures. Scholars want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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