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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are enabling learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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