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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology enable learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Utah Valley University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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