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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology enable humans all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Public servants want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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