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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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