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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in e-learning technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take online classes. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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