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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in elearning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Togo to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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