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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in elearning enable learners all around the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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