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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning are making it possible for students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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