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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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