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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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