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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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