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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning have enabled humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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