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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning are empowering students all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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