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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in elearning technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cocos (Keeling) Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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