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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Elidaemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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