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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in e-learning enable humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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