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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in online education technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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