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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education make it possible for learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Comoros to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these open education ventures. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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