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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Yemen to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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