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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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