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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education enable people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a developing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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