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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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