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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are considering in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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