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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Andorra to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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