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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand these promising new open educational initiatives. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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