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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning technology make it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 quite a few topics that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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