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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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