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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning are providing the means for learners all around the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that online education institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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