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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning are making it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. People want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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