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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in online learning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. 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. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to better understand these important new open education undertakings. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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