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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning have enabled people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like Isle of Man to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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