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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the major 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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