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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning technology are enabling students all around the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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