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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to understand these open education endeavours. Students want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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