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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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