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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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