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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in distance learning have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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