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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in e-learning technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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