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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning have made it possible for humans all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Universities want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this developing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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