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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in elearning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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