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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are enabling students all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Iceland to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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