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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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