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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in electronic education technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Laos to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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