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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology are empowering people all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to understand these interesting new open education initiatives. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This amazing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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