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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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