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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning enable students all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Slovenia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Students want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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