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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Somalia to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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