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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic educational technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Reunion to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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