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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning enable learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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