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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in elearning technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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