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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Luxembourg to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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