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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education have empowered people all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. People want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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