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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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