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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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