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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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