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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning are enabling students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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