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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in electronic educational technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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