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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology are empowering people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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