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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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