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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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