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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in elearning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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