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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in electronic education technology have empowered learners all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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