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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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