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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning have enabled learners in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mongolia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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