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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Romania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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